Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly because , by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties , it would give the Commission greater independence ; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament , again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed . |
| 2 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |
| 3 | ‘ When I went to the Slade my sole intention was to become art master at some comfortable school . |
| 4 | If Reagan did prove bellicose during his first terms as President he was amply repaid by the Kremlin whose ageing leaders appeared unable to take any positive initiatives . |
| 5 | On the Tuesday his American boss had a practice round in the morning , practised for a couple of hours , pronounced himself satisfied and arranged to meet Froggy at ten o'clock the next day . |
| 6 | On the Tuesday our proper visits began to the surrounding area . |
| 7 | Norway has no immediate plans to leave the IWC which last year rejected plans from Iceland and Japan to catch a limited number of whales . |
| 8 | In the Atlantic its average breadth is nearly 100 miles , and many of its peaks tower 10,000 feet above the seabed . |
| 9 | In the long run the Nazis made the Danzigers their willing victims . |
| 10 | Evolution has given us the Canaletto whose complex city perspectives recede infinitely away and now it is itself seen regressing as |
| 11 | In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath . |
| 12 | On its whistle-stop tour of the Pacific his Floating Island — an Oahu with propellers — found Polynesian gentlemen in waistcoats and wing-collars instead of savages in feathers . |
| 13 | In the US its suggested price is $60 or about £40 . |
| 14 | When the couple went on their ill-fated ‘ second honeymoon ’ cruise round the Mediterranean her worst fears were confirmed . |
| 15 | They were ordered to camp in a swampy depression beside the Missouri which one observer suggested had been selected ‘ for the express purpose of putting an end to Chief Joseph and his band ’ . |
| 16 | All he knew was that the Eckleys were lending the Brownings their best carriage so they might travel the more comfortably to Rome for the winter . |
| 17 | The real villain of the piece is the master of the Titanic whose reckless onrush across the north Atlantic at full speed into waters known to be strewn with icebergs was quite unforgivable . |
| 18 | It was agreed at the Hague to enlarge the Community to include Britain and others , to finance CAP by giving the EC its own resources and to look at new areas of co-operation in the economic and political fields . |
| 19 | Sir Patrick reiterated his call for everyone to give the RUC their full co-operation and for anyone with details of the latest murder to come forward . |